The year 1975 in literature involved some significant events and new books. [edit] Events [edit] Fiction [edit] Poetry Main article: 1975 in poetry[edit] Non-fiction [edit] Births [edit] Deaths - January 15 - Sydney Goodsir Smith, poet, dramatist and novelist
- February 14 - Sir P. G. Wodehouse (b.1881), English comic novelist - creator of Jeeves and Wooster
- February 14 - Julian Huxley, biologist and author, brother of Aldous Huxley
- March 13 - Ivo Andrić (b.1892), Serbo-Croatian novelist - winner, 1961 Nobel Prize for Literature
- June 8 - Murray Leinster, science fiction writer
- September 20 - Saint-John Perse, poet
- October 5 - Constance Malleson, actress and writer
- October 22 - Arnold J. Toynbee, historian
- November 13 - R. C. Sherriff, dramatist
- November 19 - Elizabeth Taylor, novelist
- November 23 - Francis Webb, poet
- November 27 - Ross McWhirter, joint author of the Guinness Book of Records
- December 4 - Hannah Arendt, philosopher
- December 7 - Thornton Wilder, novelist and dramatist
- date unknown - Janko Glazer, (b.1893) - poet
- date unknown - Vojko Gorjan, (b.1949) - poet
[edit] Awards - American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Belles Lettres: Kenneth Burke
- Booker Prize: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Heat and Dust
- See 1975 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.
- Cholmondeley Award: Jenny Joseph, Norman MacCaig, John Ormond
- Eric Gregory Award: John Birtwhistle, Duncan Bush, Val Warner, Philip Holmes, Peter Cash, Alasdair Paterson
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Brian Moore, The Great Victorian Collection
- James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Karl Miller, Cockburn's Millennium
- Nebula Award: Joe Haldeman, The Forever War
- Newbery Medal for children's literature: Virginia Hamilton, M. C. Higgins, the Great
- Newdigate prize: Andrew Motion
- Nobel Prize for Literature: Eugenio Montale
- Premio Nadal: Francisco Umbral, Las ninfas
- Prix Goncourt: Romain Gary as Emile Ajar - La vie devant soi
- Prix Médicis French: Jacques Almira, Le Voyage à Naucratis
- Prix Médicis International: Steven Millhauser, La Vie trop brève d'Edwin Mulhouse - United States
- Pulitzer Prize for Drama: Edward Albee, Seascape
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: Michael Shaara - The Killer Angels
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Gary Snyder - Turtle Island
- Viareggio Prize: Paolo Volponi, Il sipario ducale
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